Ebook: The VimL Primer: Edit Like a Pro with Vim Plugins and Scripts

Cover; Table of Contents; An Introduction; The World's Shortest History Lesson; Who Should Read This Book; How to Read This Book; Online Resources; Acknowledgments; 1. The Lay of the Land; Functions, Types, and Variables; Loops and Comparisons; Our Project: An Interface for mpc; The Structure of a Vim Plugin; 2. A Real Live Plugin; But First, a Function; Running External Commands; Writing Text to a Buffer; 3. The Autoload System; Autoloading Functions; Finding Windows by Buffers; The Built-in Buffer Functions; Retrieving the Text of a Line; 4. Recognizing File Types.